Box for cigarettes and similar oblong articles



7- I J. CALLMANDE'R 2,090,723

BOX FOR CIGARETTES AND SIMILAR OBLONG ARTICLES Filed July 1, 1936 Patented Aug. 24, 1937 UNETED STATES BOX FUR CIGARETTES AND SIMILAR OBLONG ARTICLES Josef Callmander, Uppsala, Sweden Application July 1, 1936, Serial No. 88,460 In Sweden September 1'7, 1934 3 Claims.

This invention refers to boxes for cigarettes and similar articles and more particularly to such boxes as consist of one single outer box having a closing flap but no displaceable inner box.

The chief object of this invention is to render a box of this type more simple, practical and hygienic than heretofore.

Another object of this invention is to make such boxes of one integral piece of cardboard or similar material.

Another object of this invention is to render it possible to take the cigarettes out of the box individually, while touching only one cigarette with the fingers at the same time.

Another object of this invention is to render it possible to take out the first cigarette of a full box as easily as any of the others.

Because the cigarettes may be taken out separately, While there is no risk of the hand touching the adjacent cigarettes in the box, the box is very hygienic in use. In spite of these advantages, the box is inexpensive and simple.

One embodiment of the box in accordance with this invention is shown in the annexed drawing. The box is illustrated in a perspective View and has the closing flap opened and the cigarettes ready for sliding out.

Referring now to the drawing, l and 2 are the two wide side walls of the box body, while 3 and 4 are the narrow end walls at right-angles thereto. As usual, the box is provided with a bottom 8. The wall 2 is integral with an opening flap 5, provided with two folds at 6 and I. Integral with the end wall 4 there is a lateral flap 9, extending at least across half of the width of the box and preferably across the whole width of the box, as shown. The free end I 9 of the flap 9 may be cut away obliquely, causing the flap to taper to a point. A recess II is cut in the body of the box to render it possible to open the flap 5 more easily. A piece [4 of cardboard glued to the flap 5 enters said recess, when the flap 5 is closed.

This device is used as follows:

In contrast to the usual procedure in ordinary packages with a flap the cigarettes are packed in such manner that they are parallel to the flaps 9 and 5, when the box is closed. If then the closing fiap 5 is opened, the lateral flap 9 will spring out until its lower edge is checked in the told I, as shown in the drawing. The cigarette I2 next to the fiap 5 will then, when the box is inclined, roll or slide to an inclined position, as shown in the drawing, and may easily be drawn out or caused to slide out by gravity, if the box is tilted correspondingly. In order to take out the cigarettes separately, the box should be inclined so as to cause the opening between the flap 9 and the edge of the end wall 3 to assume a low position, i. e. so as to cause the longitudinal direction of the fiap 9 to form an oblique angle with the horizontal plane while simultaneously the flap 9 is inclined to the vertical plane.

The improved box may be used for cigarettes in one single layer or in two or more layers. Also in said last-mentioned case only one cigarette at a time will, as a rule, come out through the opening between the flap 9 and the edge of the wall 3, because as a result of the pressure of the diiTerent layers on each other, of the inclination etc. there is always a certain asymmetry and consequently one of the cigarettes always has a stronger tendency of rolling forth to the position of discharge than the others.

It is to be observed that even the very first cigarette of a package may be taken out as easy as any of the following ones. Because the cigarettes have a certain tendency of rolling forth to the closing flap rather than of sliding there, it is much easier to take out the cigarettes than in the well-known packages in which the longitudinal direction of the cigarettes is parallel to the walls 3 and G, i. e. is at right-angles to the closing flap. Simultaneously the advantage is attained that the cigarettes come to the opening separately and not several at a time, as in the known packages.

Instead of being integral with the body of the box, the flaps 5 and 9 may consist of separate strips of cardboard glued to the body of the box.

What I claim is:-

1. In a parallelepipedic single box for cigarettes and similar oblong articles, without any displaceable inner box, in combination, two parallel broad side walls, two narrow end walls parallel to each other and at right-angles to said broad side walls, a bottom at right angles to said side walls and said end walls, a closing flap attached to the edge of one of said side walls at the top end thereof which is opposite to said bottom, said closing flap being folded twice and turned inwards to the box to close the top end thereof, and a lateral flap attached to one of said end walls at the top end thereof which is opposite to said bottom, said lateral flap being normally below the inturned closing flap and extending across more than half of the width of said side walls.

2. In a parallelepipedic one-piece box for cigarettes and similar oblong articles, in combination, two parallel broad side walls, two parallel narrow end walls at right-angles to said side walls, a bottom at right-angles to said side walls and said end walls, a closing flap attached to the edge of one of said side-walls at the top end thereof which is opposite to said bottom, said closing flap being folded twice and bent inwards into the box to close the top end thereof, and a lateral flap attached to one of said end walls at the top end thereof which is opposite to said bottom, said lateral flap being cut obliquely at its outer free end and being normally folded below said closing flap and further extending across more than half of the width of said side walls.

3. In a parallelepipedic one-piece box for cigarettes and similar oblong articles, in combination, two parallel broad side walls, two parallel narrow end walls at right-angles to said side walls, a bottom at right-angles'to said side walls and said end walls, a closing flap attached to the edge of one of said side-walls at the top end thereof which is opposite to said bottom, said closing flap being folded twice and bent inwards into the box to close the top end thereof, the other of said side walls having a recess, a lateral flap attached to one of said end walls at the top end thereof which is opposite to said bottom, said lateral flap extending across more than half of the width of said side walls and being also normally folded below said closing flap bent inwards into the box, and a piece of cardboard glued to said closing flap to enter said recess in said other side wall. JOSEF CALLMANDER. 

